A million birds? It’s normal for Norfolk
We rarely encounter an abundance of species other than our own Homo sapiens in Britain.
Not so at Snettisham on an icy winter’s afternoon. A bitter wind swept from the Arctic straight into the Wash, keeping people at bay but blowing in the tide – and many thousands of birds.
The Wash is one of the biggest estuaries in Britain, a vast expanse of salt marsh,
